Robb Smith

Trump, Populism and the Rise of a Post-Scarcity World

I started writing a blog post last month on the deeper dynamics that I see driving the rise of populism (e.g., Trump and Brexit), and the post just kept growing so I decided to release it as a short eBook instead. Here's a first version, subject to update as I get feedback:

The rise of the transformation age

As I discussed in my TEDx talk, we've seen the end of the information age and the rise of the transformation age. I mark the beginning of the transformation age at 2007, a year that saw the confluence of the first next generation smartphone (iPhone) and the concomitant rise of high speed data . . .

The Case for a 21st Century Behavior Change Platform

I just published an updated version of a recent white paper on why large-scale population behavior change is the central challenge of the American healthcare system and what the contours of a paradigm will be to address it. From the paper:

To say the current healthcare paradigm is challenged by the task ahead is an . . .

A Visual TEDx Talk

Some of you might have seen my TEDx talk The Transformational Life. I was really blown away when my friend Joran Oppelt created this visual depiction of the talk recently and sent it to me. Thank you Joran, truly awesome!

An Archimedes Lever for Global Transformation

Transformational technology. That's what I've increasingly come to call what I do for a living when asked. Chrysallis is not edTech. It's not mHealth. Though we share some characteristics with each. It's TransTech, and there's no wikipedia link to it because as far as we know we're creating the category. Here's . . .

One of the #predictableformulas of trendy blogging is some spin on how you can be special. How to treat your life like a startup, or hack your genome to stardom, or be like [enter latest venture-backed entrepreneur here], or whatever. The hidden subtext is always some version of this: